Then, just as the girl moves forward to pluck one of Baby’s headphones from his ear, the clouds part and the sunlight sweeps over them, the beams of light shining through the trees and making every single damn thing in the park look like it was a fucking movie.ĭarling checks her phone again before staring incredulously at the sky. Jesus fucking christ, they were so sweet it turned her stomach. Baby and whoever this girl is are walking hand in hand through the park, both of their headphones plugged into one of Baby’s more colourful iPods, just, smiling at each other.
She stared from her relatively unobtrusive spot on the balcony of a cafe with the relatively obtrusive binoculars she had swiped from the trunk of her car. So she flipped on her turn signal and followed the two lovebirds as the traffic increased from a crawl to a light jog. Their car pulled ahead and Darling glanced at her watch … she should be meeting Buddy, but now she was curious. Well not really, she wasn’t dressed as Belle or anything, but goddamn it, Darling wouldn’t be surprised if cute little woodland creatures descended from the heavens and fixed her hair. There she was, minding her own business, when she looked to the car on her left and saw Baby, driving a disney princess to work. He doesn’t look back.ĭarling had to check too many goddamn times to see if she was hallucinating. When he notices the fucking glitter he leaves. There is a goddam halo around her head, as if she was some kind of renaissance angel. Then Doc runs into Baby and dear Debora on a date.
Because that’s what she was utterly, boringly, blandly normal. So he left, gave her a good tip, and silently wished Baby good luck on his quest for a normal life. (He figured it was the lack of makeup, the photo had been of her on a date with Baby, so she had probably dolled herself up for him.) Her mouth set in a stubborn frown when not dialing up the happy-to-serve customer attitude. Her eyes had shadows under them, her hair slightly greasy. Nothing stood out about the girl, she was very bland, in her lightly stained black and white uniform, working an unfulfilling 9 to 9 like everyone else there. He had expected her to be exceptional, smart, maybe even magical. These changes were very slight in comparison to the music, but they were still there, still samples of his otherness.Īnd this girl, well, he hadn’t expected her. A happy Baby was not a still Baby, when Baby was happy, when he was content, a glow seemed to radiate from him, and the colours in a room seemed more vivid.
Baby in a room was like a point of gravity, his stillness seemed to hold a room still, and when he moved it dragged the room with it, actions and voices speeding up as he did. Baby was so exceptional, now that Doc was focusing on him more he saw more, more than just the way the world moved. It’s not that lacking isn’t good, but for some reason he had expected something more. What he finds is just as lacking as he expected. So, on a cold, boring Thursday morning puts himself in her section, in the shitty diner she works at, during her grueling 12 hour shift, when he knows that Baby will be preoccupied (Joe had a doctor’s appointment). His only worry about her was that she was a bit of a flight risk, but that could be easily fixed. She cared and paid for her mother’s medical bills until the old bat died, her sister lived two states over. Finished high school and then went to community college studying business management while working at a diner similar to this one. So he does his research, finds out her name (Debora Reynolds), her parent’s names (Ashley and Graham), her siblings (a sister), how much she makes at the crappy diner (not much), checks to see if she has any student debts he can exploit (a few, but not enough to justify purchasing them from the bank … Better to keep his paper trail as small as possible), and, generally what he finds isn’t very impressive. He needs to know everything about his lucky charm, especially after the goddam magi- otherwise unknown aspects of Baby had been revealed. Baby Driver: Music From the Motion Picture:Ġ1 Jon Spencer Blues Explosion: “Bellbottoms” 02 Bob & Earl: “Harlem Shuffle” 03 Jonathan Richman & the Modern Lovers: “Egyptian Reggae” 04 Googie Rene: “Smokey Joe’s La La” 05 The Beach Boys: “Let’s Go Away For a While” 06 Carla Thomas: “B-A-B-Y” 07 Kashmere Stage Band: “Kashmere” 08 Dave Brubeck: “Unsquare Dance” 09 The Damned: “Neat Neat Neat” 10 The Commodores: “Easy (Single Version)” 11 T.Doc … Doc meets Baby’s girl on purpose.